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Even though we are not focusing on Amnesty International in class, it was mentioned and so I decided to take a look
and what exactly they write about and the issues they address. First when you enter their website you can pick what country you
would like to look at, or you can visit their home page and look at their headlines. So I decided to look at their headlines. I came
across this title, "Nepal's Government Fails to Protects Women Human Rights Activists", so I decided to read it over. The story that
they first talk about is a woman who was killed recently who was a big Women Rights activist and who was a journalist that worked
for a radio station. Then the article goes on to explain that in the election of April 2008, and a new Constituent Assembly was
elected. This assembly was supposed to help with Human Rights and actually improve human rights especially women rights.
As time went on there were murders of women activists and leaders in the Nepal community. So this assembly that is to help
improve women rights is killing off the women activists.
The reason i brought this up is because it seems to be a trend in all of my anthropology classes this semester, Women
activists or any types of activists and the government killing the leaders and those who are powerful or persistent. When it
comes down to it, those who are powerful and threaten the those who are in power, then they have to be "Killed" or "Exiled". So
connecting it to the body. Those who are powerful hold a sort of threat over society where if they are seen as weak or if they
show weakness of any sort, then the body they portray is not power, it is commoner. So those who threaten those in power are
often put into exile or killed because they threat the powerful body, and to maintain that powerful body, the one in power must
have control over the one trying to take their power away. And to be honest that seems to be the picture in most "Third world
countries", or countries run by dictatorships. It is a shame that the people in power preach change, but once in
power become paranoid and change to killing off threats. The people of these countries in Africa, Middle East, and so on want
change and want a place where they can live without fear, but the power, the feel of power, the change in a person once in power
then changes the way the country is ruled.
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